The Ecocide Report Episode 11: January 2025

In this episode, Chidi and Jojo recap last year’s major developments, including the inclusion of ecocide in the EU’s revised Environmental Crime Directive and the historic proposal by the sovereign states of Vanuatu, Fiji, and Samoa to add ecocide to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Following a public declaration at the Biodiversity COP in Colombia in October, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has now also endorsed the proposal.

The pair revisit December’s co-organised official ICC ecocide law side event, where the proposal was presented to the Court’s Assembly of States Parties, and discuss recent progress at the domestic level—including new ecocide legislation in Azerbaijan, key advancements in Peru, and the Ecocide (Prevention) (Scotland) Bill.

Jojo highlights the Ecocide Alliance of Parliamentarians events, held in English, Spanish, and French at the end of last year, which continue to foster global collaboration among elected officials. She also shares key moments from Stop Ecocide International’s delegations to New York Climate Week, COP16, and COP29.

Looking ahead, Jojo outlines SEI’s strategic approach for 2025 and highlights recent and upcoming in-person ecocide law events. She reflects on key discussions from January’s Oxford Real Farming Conference and previews SEI’s participation in the Global Systemic Forum in Liechtenstein, upcoming engagements at Columbia Law School and Harvard, and GLOBExCHANGE—one of North America’s foremost climate and sustainability conferences—set to take place in Toronto in early February.

📺 Watch the video version of this episode here.

A huge thank you to Be The Earth Foundation for so generously providing a fantastic location to record this episode.